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It turns out that the problem was indeed the updated HAL as LOEdiver says. Put back in the 12.1 package, run /etc/rc.hald restart and it'll work again.
I found the same quirk on my Lenovo X60s machine, but it didn't appear at all on older IBM T23.
Is this automounting problem hardware-related ?
All these machines contain fresh Slackware current packages (as always).
Same issue here (slackware-current, no devices in neither Thunar, Dolphin or Konqueror), I first thought it was a Thunar issue but neither KDE3 nor KDE4 want to work. So, I'll blame it on the new HAL package.
Same issue here (slackware-current, no devices in neither Thunar, Dolphin or Konqueror), I first thought it was a Thunar issue but neither KDE3 nor KDE4 want to work. So, I'll blame it on the new HAL package.
I'm going to bug Pat about this.
Don't bother already did.
need to reinstall original hal and hal-info from 12.1 disk 1 to fix the problem
Pat's response is that the new HAL has parted as a dependency. I didn't have parted installed so that's probably the problem. I'm reinstalling the new HAL as I write. I'm sure it will work ...
... which it does.
So my new question is how does one find out about such changes in dependencies? Is there an announcement that I missed somewhere?
Last edited by brixtoncalling; 09-23-2008 at 02:23 AM.
Reason: new HAL & parted installed
Well, on a fresh 12.2 install I am experiencing this exact same problem. And I do mean exact. Same errors about it not being able to find my storage device but it exists and i am able to manually mount it. It's my CD/DVD-rom drive.
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